Word: picketting
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...Benevolent Association accepted the layoffs, though with bitterness and threats of work slowdowns. Firemen called in sick in record numbers. The sanitation workers, with the token protest but implicit approval of their union leadership, illegally left their jobs, promising to turn New York into "Stink City" and shouting from picket lines, "Wait 'til the rats come...
...Newspapers rejected their advertising, the Chicago Transit Authority refused to display their posters, and a clutch of American Nazi Party members showed up to picket. Nonetheless, some 750 delegates of the American Communist Party managed to get together at Chicago's swank Ambassador Hotel for their first convention in three years. "Some people have said that we should love this country or leave it," intoned California Delegate Angela Davis, "[but] we are going to fight like hell to get this country back." Fighter Davis was bothered, though, by the fact that the party had chosen such an unproletarian meeting...
Groves of pines and evergreens outlined the expansive terrain of the polo grounds and little white picket fences defined the performing areas for the riders...
...those early days, she says, staff members became good friends suddenly, "the way you do on a picket line." They started the Real Paper, after all, because they had been on a picket line together--at the old Phoenix, where they once went on strike against publisher Richard Missner. Missner and the strikers settled after the paper was shut down for a week, but a couple of months later, in July 1972, Missner sold the Phoenix to rival publisher Stephen Mindich of Boston After Dark. Mindich wanted only the Phoenix name and a staff member of two; he bought...
...students apparently were in no mood to listen to Hornig's reasoning. While about 40 protesters remained inside University Hall, 150 blacks manned a picket line outside. In a separate line, farther away from the building, some 300 white students marched in support of the minority students. Inside, the polite and well organized students gave the deans sandwiches; in return, just as if it were friendly competition, the deans took the students' phone calls...